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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 124

Naval General Service 1793-1840, one clasp, Navarino (Windham [sic] B. Portman, Lieut. R.N.), edge bruising, therefore very fine

W.B. Portman served as Lieutenant in H.M.S. Talbot during the battle of Navarino in which the combined fleets of Britain, France and Russia engaged and routed the Turkish fleet, 20.10.1827.

Lieutenant Wyndham Berkeley Portman, R.N., born 1804, third son of Edward Berkeley Portman, Esquire, of Bryanston, Dorset, and brother of Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman; joined the Royal Navy, August 1817; passed his examination ,1823, and appointed Lieutenant, H.M.S. Brisk (Captain the Hon. Anson), on the Mediterranean station, January 1826; appointed in the same rank to H.M.S. Talbot, 1827.

Provenance:
Glendining, July 1943

Sold for
£1,100